Imtiaz Butt

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Imtiaz Butt
Personal information
Full name Muhammad Imtiaz Butt
Date of birth 1973
Place of birth Faisalabad, Pakistan
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1987–1994 WAPDA
1994–1999 Pakistan Airlines
International career
1991–1995 Pakistan
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Muhammad Imtiaz Butt (born 1973) is a Pakistani former footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for WAPDA and Pakistan Airlines at the National Football Championship. Butt is among the major players of the Pakistan national football team in the 1990s, [1] [2] [3] and also helped the national team retain gold at the 1991 South Asian Games.

Contents

Club career

Butt played for WAPDA at the National Football Championship from 1987 to 1994. In 1990, Butt also participated in the National Youth Championship held in Faisalabad and represented Punjab, where his team secured the second position. [4] [5] [6]

Butt joined Pakistan Airlines in 1994 and helped the team win the National Football Championship title in 1997. [7]

International career

Butt got selected by the national under-23 side for the 1992 Summer Olympics qualifiers in 1991. He also featured for the Pakistan under-19 national team at the 1992 AFC Youth Championship qualifiers in Kannur, India.

Butt was first called by the senior Pakistan national team at the 1991 South Asian Games in Sri Lanka. Butt made his first bench appearance for the senior national team in the opening game against Maldives. He featured as starter in the final against Maldives, winning the match by 2–0 and clinching the title. [8]

Coaching career

After his retirement as player, Butt served as manager of the Pakistan national under-19 team for the 2008 AFC U-19 Championship qualification in November 2007 in Tehran. [9]

Later on, he opened a football academy in Faisalabad that engages veteran players while also training young footballers. [10] [11]

Honours

Pakistan

Pakistan Airlines

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